This course enables you to give vital treatment and support patients with life-threatening illnesses to achieve the best quality of life. It is designed to be flexible, allowing you to tailor your studies to your needs and area of practice.

Gain an expert understanding of palliative and end of life care and its aims to achieve the best quality of life for patients facing life-threatening illness on this course. You also learn how to give vital treatment for their condition.

Your studies focus on a holistic approach to symptom management for the patient and psychological, social and spiritual support for the patient and their family.

This course is ideal for experienced practitioners providing day-to-day care to patients in their homes, hospitals, hospices and nursing homes.

We have designed this course to make it easy to fit around your work and suit your professional needs. You can tailor your studies to your needs and area of practice, through a mix of core and optional modules. And you complete your studies via distance learning through our online learning environment allowing you to learn in the way most suited to your personal circumstances.

The course was developed by a multiprofessional team for a multiprofessional workforce. The learning, teaching and assessment strategies reflect the interprofessional working in supportive and palliative care helping develop more effective teamwork. Various professionals contribute to the teaching.

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• Enhance your existing knowledge with an extended period of study and research.
• Learn from a range of medical professionals who have input on course materials.
• Get the support of an academic supervisor throughout your studies.
• Consolidate previous certificated study gaining accreditation towards this qualification.

Entry Requirements

Typically you need a degree or equivalent in a health or social care discipline.

You should be working in a general or specialist area of supportive or palliative care.

If you are accepted on the course, we will send you preparatory tasks and course information at least two months before you begin. Late applicants receive this information as soon as they are accepted unconditionally.

If English is not your first language, you need an IELTS score of 7.0 or TOEFL or equivalent.

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Study a course for practicing language teachers, designed to develop your career into English for academic purposes (EAP). It guides you through the forms of language analysis, teaching techniques, and research practices surrounding the emerging field of EAP. The course encourages reflective practice and application of pedagogical skills within your own context.

This course is for experienced in-service language teachers who wish to develop their career into English for academic purposes (EAP).

The course is designed to

• broaden your understanding of how language works
• increase your knowledge of how it is learned or acquired
• explore a range of EAP issues
• develop a specialist expertise in a specific area, while building experience in the methodologies that underpin educational research
• enhance reflection skills based around your individual setting

This course improves your ability to

• evaluate critically areas of the EAP profession’s theory and practice
• extend your knowledge and understanding in specialist areas
• complete an EAP research project related to your working situation

You study core areas such as language analysis, the EAP learner, teaching in different academic and cultural contexts and specialist issues in EAP.

You also focus on an area of EAP relevant to your teaching and explore it further through research, usually based in your own workplace. This research is normally useful to your professional development and to your workplace.

This distance learning course is supported with the university's virtual learning environment. No face-to-face attendance is required as you become part of an international community of teachers through on-line discussion and receive email and SKYPE support from tutors.

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• Suitable for experienced in-service TESOL teachers.
• Study the core areas of EAP theory and practice such as language analysis and testing and evaluation.
• Discuss your studies online with an international community of teachers.
• Gain the qualifications and skills needed to advance your career.

Entry Requirements

Applicants must have

• a degree or equivalent qualification
• at least two years’ experience of teaching in the profession and be currently teaching
• have successfully completed the Trinity College London Certificate in TESOL, Cambridge CELTA or equivalent

If you have successfully completed a recognised professional teaching diploma in TESOL, such as the Trinity College Licentiate Diploma or Cambridge (DELTA) are exempt from stage one.

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Study a course that enables professional managers to develop their career potential by enhancing their knowledge and skills in total quality management and organisational excellence. Successfully completing it entitles you to apply for full membership of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI).

We designed this course for professional managers who wish to develop their career in total quality management and organisational excellence.
Flexible attendance allows you to fit your study round your personal commitments, providing you complete stage one in three years and all three stages in six years.

The course is suitable for you if you are

• employed in quality improvement
• seeking up-to-date knowledge of the methods, principles and practice of total quality management and organisational excellence
• responsible for setting up total quality management projects
• working closely with senior colleagues and others to carry out total quality initiatives

It is a practical course which builds on your personal management and development skills, which bring significant benefits for your organisation.

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• Benefit from a practical focus on personal management development skills.
• Gain Chartered Quality Professional (CQP) status, the gold standard for the quality profession.
• Existing CQI members can gain continuing professional development status.
• Graduates of this course can also take advantage MPhil/PhD opportunities in this area.

Entry Requirements

Typically you need

• a good degree or an equivalent recognised professional qualification in any discipline
• a minimum of three years relevant work experience
If English is not your first language you need an IELTS score of 6.0 with 5.5 in all skills.

If you do not have a first degree, we will consider you individually based on your professional experience and any other formal qualifications.

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